Improvement in head-lights for engines



P. BUDENBACH.I

Locomotive Head Light. No. 54,850; Patented. May 22, o 1866;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER BUDENBAGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

[ MPROVEMENT IN HEAD-LIGHTS FOR ENGINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,850, dated May 22, 1866.

, scription of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which- Figure l i is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line am, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the Buoy 2. Fig. 4 is a View of the lower end of the tube, showing the radialdeflecting-plates.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre' sponding parts in the different figures.

The invention consists in the arrangement of deflecting-plates in the lower casing or tube of the lamp, by which the entering air is prevented from impinging directly upon the flame to disturb it.

In the drawings, A is the lower tube, which forms an air-chamber at the lower end of the lamp, and B are plates which cover the apertures O in the tube. The plates B are so much larger than the apertures O that the air is compelled to make a tortuous track in entering, and meeting with other volumes of air which have entered under similar conditions, they form a body of air without and decided direction, which passes upward to the flame without producing agitation or disturbance.

At the lower end of the tube A are oblique radiating wings E, which give a spiral direc tion to the entering upward current, which combines with the air entering by the lateral apertures, and passes upward to supply the Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the plates B, covering and extending beyond the margin of the apertures G, with the radial and oblique directorplates in the lower opening of the tubeofA, the combined devices operating to deflect the entering currents of air to prevent the direct imfringement of the air upon the flame and the consequent disturbance thereof.

The above specification of my invention signed this 22d day of January, 1866.

PETER BUDENBAOH. Witnesses:

FEED. KASOHE, JOHN A. WIEDERsHEru. 

